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A Coal Famine In Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, o., Nov. 2O.-The present
stock of coal in Cincinnati is 100000 bushels
while the usual stock at this timo is three or
four million bushels. Tho low stage OF water
in the Ohio River. which Is the chief source Of
supply for soft coal, makes 1t impossible TO add
hushel In that way TO the stock.
The railroads are not at all prepared to sup
ply such vast quantities as arc consumed here
daily. though In case there IL not worry soon a
rise In the river, their. equipment will have to
be enlarged to prevent actual distress Manu-
featuring establishments are now In trouble
oyer THO short allowance and high prices, and
All arc intensely interested in rise In the Ohio
River
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Six months ago st. Matthew's Episcopal Free
Church started in tho small wooden church building on
Ninth avenue near Eshtysecond street. under the rec
torshp of the Rev Henry Chamberlane and it has al
ready nearly ongrown its present quarters The ladies
Of tho church purpose holding sale Dec e. l. and
the object of which will DO to provide funds for
necessary improvements in the church Tho Executive
Iommiitc tee arc Mrs C. T. iyeS lel West Eighty third
Mrs. GEORGE A DenLE, l41 West Eighty second street.
Mrs X. CornslL 81 West ighy.third street; Mrs c.
b. Sellers lh6 West lO5h street; Mrs II. Chant
81 West Eighty third street; and Mrs. ". H. Chapman
10 West Eighty. third street. President
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IsHPENN1No, Mich. Nov. 2O.--A fire start
ed in the seventeenth level. l shaft, OF the
Calumet and Heca copper mine this morning
1t is supposed to be Of incendiary origin All the
shafts were closed. This is the secnd big fire
within three months Carpoic acid gas will be-
pumped into tho burning mine. Two thousand
men will be out of work until the fire is put out
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A Bo~ Builder Reported M,..,ur,

John Griffin, n boss builder, living ut 3O3
East Fifty-ninth street, was reported missing
at Police Headquarters yesterday He left
home Saturday evening and failed to return
A FREUD Of his who reported his absence said
no had about $1,000 In his possession, Mr.,
turn up all right.
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Philip Duryee Expinins his Absence Salts.
fnctoriiy to Miss Brown.

Philip Duryee. the young man who disap
peared on tho eve Of his wedding to Miss Mary
A. Brown. Union Hill school teacher. returned
to his home In Fairvew. N. j. last evening
His return was preceded by telegraphic dos
patch. Miss Brown heard OF 1t and went to the
Duryee house. She met her lover at the door.
What passed between them is unknown, but
tho young mans explanation was evidently sat
that he has not yet recovered from the effects Of
u severe attack of typhoid fever. Where he went
to Is yet a mystery.
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Tho Great Railroad strike.

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 9O.-There is no
change In the swltchmens strike at the South
Pacific yards here. Large quantities of freight
await shipment, and the company this after
noon announced its determination OF sending
out two trains tomorrow one TO New Orleans
and another to Ell Paso. The strikers make no
threats OF resistance but say that the company
cannot got men to make tho trains up. No at
tempt was made to move train To-day
Publications. point TO lis extension throuchout
tho Stute within tho next fow days. Tho hrake-
men strongly sympathis with the switchmon.
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obituary.

Tho Hon. c. o, Bowman IN attorney OF high
standing in Cory Pa found dead in his bed yester
day forenoon. Tho Of death WAS heart disoase
Mt Bowman was twice elected 10 the LEGISLATURE in
1853 and lbta. ua was delegate to the convention
that revised ne Constitution OF the state He was
years old and leaves wife and nvs children lie was
the sou OF Godfrey Bowman. who q medal for hIa
bravery In Perry's victory on Lake Erie
Louis aallAit tho Belgian historical painter dead
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Fire In the Duke of Brasapza,. Palace.

LISBON. Nov. 2O.-The Duke Of Braganza's
palace villa vicosa was damaged by fire to-day. Tho
fire started In the bedroom the young Prince BERN
who was burned on the head and hands. some OF the
Nicosa Immediately.
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APropo.n, by Limerick Landlords.

DUBLIN, Nov. 2o.-At meeting of Linn
erick landlords to-day a resolution was adopted
favortng dual ownership of land. 1t is pro-
rate Of interest to enable landlords to grant In
solvent tenants three years rent MS compensa-
ton on eviction, the principal and interest to
years. The resolution will be submitted to a
large meeting Of landlords In this city on.
Wednesday, '' 49,
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Secretary w Whitney Return. to wa.h,nstsn.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2O.--Secretary Whit
ney returned to the city on the limited express
from New York tonight and drove to his city
house. where Mrs. Whitney awaited him. Flo
has greatly improved In health. hut does not
i t warranted In assuming his full official du
regularly mt his desk soon aftor the meeting Of
Congress-. and meantime will be able to give
general direction to the department business
without looking too closely after matters OF
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1--WE Mea KILLED In a RaIlroaa Accident.

WHEELING, Nov. 2O-A construction train on
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad which left Wells
Vile with twenty-five carpenters and number of cars
loaded with lumber and other for rebuilding the
depot burned at Bellaire this morning into pile OF
rocks and dirt which had fallen from the hillside IN cut
it @ ihs lGcomonye anu s& cars were piled
son and Brakeman Hugh Niles were taken from The
wreck dead and Fireman James Russell Geriously In,
turod. several others were injured "
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Walking Asleep to hi. Death.

AZ an early hour yesterday morning James
bogley, boa,man employed one OF the stephens
vond!t 6argss a. Newark. arose from hi. bunk and
Whihod overheard while sound aBleep Another boat,
man SAW him 90 on deck and heard the splash, but
rond In nothing FOR hn because OF the darkness Beg
iey nody was recovered and taken to his home at TT
q wife naG faulty. N-
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Knight. OF Labor and the Church.

LONDON Nov. a. The Chronicles Rome cor
respondent says: Cardinal Gibbons has sent to the
Vatican further documents relating to the Knights of
Labor with the object OF showing that the association ia
IN no way hostile to tho R0mibh Church, and 1t y
the duty OF tho Church TO support the Organization"
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A man, accompanied by a bright-looking boy
about years old, called at tho Casconia Hotel in Tot
tenville. S. l.. on Saturday afternoon. The was .
stranger He loft the child at the hotel saying he had
some business to attend TO- and that he would return
within an hour Since then be has not been Yes
terday the child was taken to tho county amshouse lie
his name is John iiodoc and he came from New York.
He Is dressed In dark brown suit, blue round cap
striped shirt brown stockings and laced shoes
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ass 600 worth OF Cotton Bura.d.

GALVESTON Nov 20.-About 2 o'clock this
morning. i've ht cars with ESQ baes OF cotton standing
on tue Missouri PACING track three miles OF Lhs
city were entirely consumed by fire. The loSs Is est
mated .! SlsNn Five hours later more serious ire
pr9ke OUT among Cotton stored the wharf 200
pAles being destroyed or badly damaged before the
hAmes could be subdued The net os exclusive Of al
wage, u estimated at $4,000. -
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The Soudanese Rebels.

CAIRO, Nov. enthusiastically advices received
here say that the dervshes were attack Alb
ken ten miles south OF Wady Hsfa but they refrained
from doing hearing that tho xArri son M adv
Halfa had been reinforced
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Hugh u. Jswett Improv,ur.

HAvRE DE GRACE Nd, Nov. 20.-Mr Hugh J..
Jevs still continues to slowly improve and his phys
Clans feel greatly encouraged to-day They peTsist in
few days longer. -
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NJ $40: RP, NJ. $3.50; + y. 500; u midnight NJ:
Average, 35ko Average on Nov 10 1886. 49,.
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Frank Ms-,ssrt KIN. u,m.,,r

OYSTER BAY, Nov. 20.-Frank Montiort, SIS
Year, old and married resident OF East Norwich but
formerly Of this village, committed suicide yssterday
BE- dscoy cred. 'N~-SN SNs'N
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LONDON, Nov. 20-Porsian advices say TINT
the shahs proposed visit to Europe has been
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Signal once Prediction
JOTIINGS ABOUT TOWN.

Fair weather. light to fresh westerly winds.
shifting TO southery. slight rise in temperature.
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BROOKLYN.

LONDON, Nov. 20-Mr Gladstone has slight
cold. lie remained indoors all 10 day.
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THEY DON'T WAKE MIR. BARNuM.

Mr.. Barnum was Mt the Murray Hill Hotel
when Sun reporter called with news Of the
fire, but had gone to bed and the clerk thought
he had not heard Of the fire. Up to ian no tels-
They don't wake him at the hotel to tell him
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
a GROUNDLESS SCARE.

From yesterdays dispatches it seems
that the talk of formidable. determined
effort on the part of sympathisers with
the condemned anarchists to thwart the
execution Of the death penalty on the
gallows by forcible resistance, was large
ly imaginative and without foundation of
fact. True the police made few arrests
on charge of conspiracy to do some
thing, but the immediate effects of the
arrests Were to stampede the rest. and it
may be safely set down that the execu-
ton OF the men under sentence will be
the last act of the terrible drama as far
as Chicago is concerned. And the many
timid ones throughout the country who
have been moved to deprecate the ex-
ecution of the convicts upon the
idea of making martyrs of them
IN the estimation of their followers in
sentiment and thus strengthen rather
than weaken the damnable heresy, viii
take courage and spreak from conviction
pediency. A temporizing policy in the
treatment Of this destructive ism would
have been as but adding fuel to fire, but
the firm hand with which the authori-
ties IN whose hands the safety of the
community was placed dealt with the
wretches from the moment that fatal
bomb was thrown at Haymarket to the
present moment is an unmistakable
augury for the present and future tri-
umph Of law and order not only
in Chicago but throughout the country
where there may be a semblance
of defiance of law. The wholesome
effect of lhe vindication of the law will
be felt in every quarter of the land.
Public sentiment is with the law and the
courts on this occasion because public
sentiment realizes that public safety is
involved
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.

The Delano township Sunday School
Convention will be held at the Harmony
Presbyterian Church, November, goth:
1897.
PROGRAM.
1000 a. m.-Devotional service, led by
Rev. E. j. Brown.
10:30-Punctuality in the Sunday
School. w. l.. DETROIT. superintendent
of the Rocky Mountain district.
11:00-Duty OF Superintendent to the
Sunday School. Z. S. Aldrich.
11:30-Declamation.
NOON.-BASKET DINNER.
/ 80 p. m.-Deyotional service, led by
A. \. Marquis. township vice-president.
2:O0-Duty of parents TO the Sunday
School. Hon. R. f.. Lawrence.
2:30-Successfu teaching, Mr. B. A.
DYER. of Wichita, superintendent Of
Harmony Sunday School
2:J0-How to enlist parents in the Sun
day School; Rev. Thomas Horton.ss
3;25-Sunday School literature, Ralph
Field.
3:45-How to make the lesson interest
ing. F. II. kesler
EVENING SESSION.
100 p. m.-DevOtional service, led by
W. L. Detroit, followed by song ser
vice.
9:45-Addresses will be delivered by
Rev. A E. Garrison and Hon. W. s.
Morris. of Wichita.
The services will be intersperced with
songs. declamations and essays.
We say to ons and all, Come.
j. ". ARMSTRONG, Missionary.
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
THREE FOES OF THE REPUBLIC.

Leavenworth Times: He who stuffs a
ballot-boX. makes false count or retllr II
of votes in greater foe to popular gov
ernment than was ever Jeff Davis. He
is conspirator against the life of the
Republic.
The man who buys votes, whether
Democrat or Republican, traffics in man.
hood and buys and sells it as did the
slave dealer. He, next to the ballot-box
stuffer, is foe to the popular govern
ment.
He who sells his vote barters the
blood-bought legacy which the Republic
has conferred upon him. He is traitor
in the same sense that soldier who be-
trays picket-post into the hands Of the
enemy is
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
EXCHANGE SAYINGS

The good folks OF Fredonia are raising
a fund. by public entertainments and
otherwise, TO purchase a town clock. A
commendable endeavor.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad company have issued a tariff
fixing a rate of Sl.10 per hundred pounds
on deciduous fruits from California TO
Kansas City. Topeka and other points.
Kansas has state university which
cost s350. $50. state agricultural college
which cost S2f3. 900 and state normal
school which cost s6s. 600 and each Of
them have an average Of about 800 stud
ents.
Sugar making Is sure to be the leading
industry of Central Kansas. The nezt
season will show such progress as VIII
astonish the world. Louisiana produces
very little except sugar and cotton.
Kansas can double discount her
on the sugar question and raise
almost every other kind of a crop
sufficient 10 supply the wants Of an en-
pire. In year Kansas suga- viii De as
staple an article in the Rssrkets Of the
world a. New Orleans DdInsses noV A.-
Sterling Republican.
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
He TICKLED HER RIBS.
She Retaliated by Scientifically Tanning
His Hide.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Seattle Intelligence.
The good people of Squak slough are
considerably agitated over an occurrence
which took place in that quiet neighbor-
hood on Saturday 1t seems that man
named Smith who works in one of the
coal mines has ranch on Squak slough,
where his family resides. Mrs. Smith Is
q bright little woman with good educa-
ton. and when the husband employed a
young man to dig ditch on the place
he used 70 induce his employers wife 10
aid him of evenings in his mathematical
studies which he was prosecuting. III the
hope that he would some day be some
thing better than a ditch-digger for a
Squak-slough rancher. 1t appears that
one evening while the farmers wife was
aiding him in solving an intricate prob
lem he became very playful and tlckled
her in the ribs with his slate pencil.
Mrs. S.. like a good woman, made no
fuss over the matter until Saturday even
ing, when her husband came home.
Shortly after he arrived the studious
ditch-digger came up from his work,
tired and hungry, and no sooner had he
entered the house than she locked the
door and made an attack upon him with
a cowhide In a most ferocious manner.
The husband, who had not been apprised
of the tickling business or the impend-
ing storm, took position in a corner and
watched the proceedings in breathless
silence, until the playful young man
took up chair with which to defend
himself
Put down that chair. or I'll brain
you" shouted the husband. ''She never
icks me unless I deserve it, and know
you must have done something wrong or
she would not go after you"
Seeing he had the worst of it, the
young fellow danced to her music until
she was tired out, when he succeeded in
forcing the door open and making his es-
cape.
did you get your coat and hat?
asked a friend to whom he told the
story.
II did not want coat or hat: l was
too warm already. l did not even get
my pay for digging that ditch, and it will
be a cold day when | tickle another
mans wife in the ribs with slate pen
Gil"
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
THE UNION LABOR VOTE.

There is one important lesson to be
gained by study of the New York cleo
ton returns, which the agitators among
laboring men might study with profit.
| They have vainly endeavored to show
the laboring men of the country that
both the old parties are opposed to the
laboring people. Their apostle, Henry
George, these theorists have claimed
would create revolution in New York,
and after the polls closed on Tuesday
evening would hold in his hands the
| destinies Of the great state of New York.
| 1t being conceded that the electoral vote
of that state must be carried by the
party who elects the president next year,
Mr. George would by being master Of
New York, hold in his own hands the
key TO the presidency. 1t will be seen
by reference to our telegraph columns
that all such schemes are rendered ridic-
ulous by the insignifcance OF the vote of
the George party in New York. The la
boring people in this country are not
fools, and the political triclzsters who at
tempt to make merchandise of their
notes by merely appealing to their preju-
dices, have ever come to naught. The
great majority of voters in this country
cannot be made to understand that any
great good can be accomplished by form
ing themselves in third party to be
hurled against one OF the old parties at
the word Of some political magician.
Such position is perfectly silly. The
Democratic and Republican parties take
sides in all the great political issues as
they come up for solution and every
voter in the country who has the sense to
comprehend the situation can take one
or the other side Of the question.
To every great political question there
are but two sides and room in the mental
arena for only two combatants. Any
organization formed on the outside can
only be held for mercenary purposes
and when brought into the conflict
will be compelled to take one side or the
other Of the matter in controversy. 1t
can therefore be safely said that in our
government, where every citizen has a
voice in the management of its affairs
there is no room for a third party.
This in our mind accounts for the small
vote cast by the third party er any num-
Der of parties organized upon ques-
tions other than those prominently be-
fore the people. The individual men,
bers of the new parties are aware of the
fact that their votes for their own party
count for nothing else, than to show
their numerical strength while they in
common with all other voters
are concerned about the issues |
to be decided by the two
prominent parties and their votes are
given to one Or the other Of these parties. |
These would-be leaders love to refer to |
the fact that the Republican party was
built up on the ruins of an old party. |
They fail. however, to remember that at |
the time of the formation of the Republi- |
can party, the principles upon which it |
was organized occupied the attention of
the American people to the exclusion of
all other subjects. The question which
it advocated was the paramount issue of
the day and that was why it succeeded.
The new parties Of today are formed on
minor ISSUES and that is the reason they |
will not succeed
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
OUR CIRCULATING MEDIUM.

The report Of the comptroller of the
currency shows that on November 1, one
week ago, the national bank circula-
ton outstanding, secured by deposits Of
United States bonds, was $3.50, ,061, q
decrease OF S50, ,495, $50 in twelve months.
In addition to this amount, however.
there was S1O2, ,5S6, ,207 Of circulation still
in the hands of the people which is rep
resented by other money on deposit in
the hands Of the treasurer. This makes
the total volume of benk notes now in
circulation S27t, sol ,274, a reduction dur
ing the twelve monts ending with No
vember of S29. .432. $40. The decline in
this element of the currency has been
rapid in the past year Or two. From
present indications, unless re-
duction in revenue be soon made. all
will be exhausted four or five years
hence except the notes secured by de-
posits of currency Of other varieties.
The prospect of the extinction of the ma
much alarm as it once would have done,
and that, too. at period comparatively
recent. This change Of feeling is due to
two causes. The people have been ex-
pecting it for so many years that they
have become partially reconciled to the
inevitable. and the fear, once felt. that
the destruction of the circulation fea-
ture would cause a contraction OF the
currency is no longer entertained. The
increase in gold and silver is rapid
enough to offset any shrinkage in the
circulating medium which the with
drawal of the bank notes can cause
Nevertheless the annihilation of the ma
tional bank currency would be a decided
loss to the country, even if all the banks
Srrrendering it should remain In the ma
tional banking system.
Wichita eagle., 1887-11-10
RAILROAD RATES.
he St. Paul CMin.J Pioneer Press.

From the ST. Paul (s1in.,) Pioneer Press.
1t is quite natural that the railroad en-
ployes Of the state should view with
alarm reduction of rates which threaten
to destroy the profits of the companies
and compel them to recoup themselves
by retrenchment of running expenses,
including salaries of employees. But it is
absurd to hold the state railroad COM
mission responsible for these reductions.
That commission has neither the dispo-
sitiOn nor the power TO reduce rates arbl-
trarily. By the express terms OF the law its
most extreme authority is limited TO the
reduction of rates which yield an ex-
cessive profit to point where the profit
of the company will be only reasonable.
By no stretch of its power could it wreck
a railroad or force it to accept such a
reduction as would make it necessary to
cut down expenses to pay dividends. In
point of fact the state railroad commits
sion, though it has served a useful pur-
pose in many ways, has not caused any
material reduction of railroad rates,
freight or passenger. Undoubtedly
some reductions have been made as the
result of investigation set on foot by the
commission showing that the roads could
afford to make them. Most of the reduc-
tions. however. and all those which bring
actual loss upon the companies, are the
result of unreasonable competition or of
strained Interpretation OF the inter
state commerce law. Nobody is respon-
sible for these bnt the roads themselves,
and the employees should carry their COM
plants to their own officials.
The protest is interesting. all the same,
as pointing out that the reduction of rail
roal rates is only q benefit within certain
definitely fixed limits If it Is
pushed so far as to destroy the profits of
the company, the company will
certainly recoup itself in some way
and somebody will have to pay for its
loss. The railroad employees have discov-
cred that they MAJ have to pay for loss
brought upon the companies by excessive
scaling down Of rates. Other classes Of
the community may be called upon to
make good similar deficiencies in WAYS
less direct but none the less certain. An
impoverished road lets its equipments
run down and passengers pay for cheap
rates with broken bones. Inefficient ser
vice is a common penalty Of cheap pay
paent. Then Peter is robbed 10 pay
Paul. Rates are cut down on a main
ltnt anu SilIppeIS on branches pay 1Or
it, Every railroad war is followed by a
season Of high rates, in which shippers
pay enough to make up previous losses.
Railroads are not run for the amusement
of their managers, and somebody has to
pay for losses. It is well for people en-
gagged III the work of cutting down un-
reasonable railroad rates to remember
always that their good work has delinate
limitations beyond which it cannot be
pushed without bearing bad fruit